What makes a painting authentic? Can painting stand for something apart from the fetish it has become? For thirty-five years, Ferguson has tackled such questions by substituting mechanical processes and found objects for the hand-made, personalized mark of the artist.

Susan Wood
(b. 1953 Saint John, NB; lives in Halifax, NS)
Dress No. 16 1991
paint, watercolour, dry pigment, charcoal an chine collé on paper
210 x 123 cm
Gift of the artist, 1994
Mount Saint Vincent University Collection
1994.5